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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1966
Page
7
About 100 workers at the Stokely Van Camp plant were sidelined after a Monday fire caused about 1 million dollars in damage to the No 1 plant in Fairmont Minnesota. Firefighters from five communities battled the blaze for over three hours in subfreezing weather with no injuries reported.
New York AP report finds 125 Democratic leaders from 30 states split on 1968 renomination with 43 percent preferring a new nominee or avoiding the issue. Support for Johnson strongest in the Northeast and weakest in the South and Midwest.
In Grand Rapids Michigan the Dewey family travels to Los Angeles after Suzy a 6 year old with leukemia is granted a Christmas wish. An anonymous Los Angeles woman funded the trip for Suzy her parents and her sister. Doctors warn Suzy may die within a year.
DETROIT AP Most auto production lines will run only three days this week as the industry aims for 8.6 million cars produced in 1966. American Motors said its plants would close for three days to align with demand, with year output expected to be about seven percent below the 9,329,000 cars built in 1965. The Automotive News report estimates American Motors produced 5,148 cars in the week ending Dec 24 and 279,302 for the year.
The travel snippet describes Copenhagen as 800 years old and Denmark’s capital with about 1.3 million people. It highlights the up and down street near the hotel, Danish china buys, Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales including the Little Mermaid statue, and a new head restored to the statue after vandalism.
Eight more convicts fled British prisons during Christmas weekend, raising total escapes to 23 with four recaptured. Dartmoor Prison saw five escapees after overpowering guards and scaling a 30 foot wall, while Leyhill Open Prison inmates fled Monday night. Police and dogs hunted the fugitives as Mountbatten criticized Dartmoor’s facilities amid a broader prison study.
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